Determine Time Zone Offset in T-SQL

Question

My database application is going to be deployed at multiple sites in different time zones.

I need a T-SQL function that will determine the UTC timestamp of midnight

Answer 1

Check out this previous question and answer for related information:

Effectively Converting dates between UTC and Local (ie. PST) time in SQL 2005

(To summarize, you do need to build time zone and DST tables in Sql Server 2005. In the next version of Sql Server we get some help with time zones.)